On the night of February 23, 2013, 22-year-old Sergio Raul Lopez Castellanos, a native of Chiapas, Mexico and resident of Golden Meadow, was killed after leaving a Houma bar. Three people — Brandy Perdue, then 18, her boyfriend Troy Jackson, and Ciegie Cheramie — persuaded Castellanos to ride with them in Cheramie’s truck. Authorities say the trio intended to rob him and that Jackson allegedly shot Castellanos during the drive toward Gibson.

The next morning police received a tip about a woman in east Houma with a deceased person in her vehicle. Cheramie was identified and taken into custody, but Castellanos’s body had been moved; his remains were later found on Bayou Sale Road and identified by fingerprints. All three were charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery, and obstruction of justice.

Troy Michael Jackson Jr. was tried, convicted of first-degree murder, obstruction of justice by tampering with evidence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and received life at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence, plus concurrent terms for the other convictions. Did anyone in the Houma or Golden Meadow area remember Castellanos or have information about that night?